With
the rapid development of China's new industries and the rapid improvement of
people's living standards, the use of computers, mobile phones, printers and
other electronic products in office and life has surged at an alarming rate.
The electricity generated by them after being discarded has caused serious
pollution to the environment. When we enjoy the convenience brought by
electronic products such as computers, televisions and mobile phones, we should
prevent and control the e-waste pollution as soon as possible.

E-waste,
or e-waste, is the world's fastest growing category of waste that includes all
used electronics, especially computers. In recent years, China's e-waste began
to peak. With the rapid development of high and new technologies, the cycle of
upgrading electronic products is getting shorter and shorter, and the resulting
e-waste grows at a rate of 180 / o per year. According to the statistics of
relevant departments, the current social holding quantity of TV sets,
refrigerators and washing machines in China is 3. Seven hundred million, one.
Five hundred million and one. 900 million units. Many of these appliances
entered homes in the mid-to-late 1980s and are now approaching the peak of
obsolescence, based on a life span of 10 to 15 years. Since 2003, China has had
at least 5 million TV sets, 4 million refrigerators and 6 million washing
machines to be scrapped every year.

In
addition, there are nearly 5 million computers and tens of millions of mobile
phones in China. Compared with common household appliances, the safe disposal
of discarded computers and mobile phones should be paid more attention to,
because they are updated much faster than household appliances. In 1991, there were
only 1 million sichuan households in China. In 2001, there were over 100
million, and in March this year, there were 2 million. 500 million, expected to
reach 500 million in 2008. Based on an average of three years' use of each
mobile phone, there are as many as 70 million discarded mobile phones in China
every year. The mobile phone is only the "little brother" of
electronic products, so much waste is produced every year, the total amount of
e-waste can be expected. How to deal with these huge waste electrical
appliances safely is an urgent problem to be solved.

Not
only the quantity of e-waste is huge, but also the danger of e-waste is
serious. Waste household electrical appliances mainly contain six kinds of
harmful substances: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polyvinyl
chloride plastics, brominated flame retardant. The cathode ray tube of the TV
set, the solder on the printed circuit board and the plastic shell are all
toxic substances, the cathode ray tube of the TV set contains 1. 8-3. Six
kilograms of lead; More than 700 chemicals are needed to make a computer,
including more than 300 chemicals that are harmful to humans. Forceps can
damage the human nerve, blood system and kidney. In addition, the battery
switch in the computer contains mercury, which permeates through the skin and
cells and can trigger asthma attacks. It can also damage the neurotransmitter.
The heavy metal elements in the case and disk drive are extremely damaging to
the DNA and brain tissue of human cells.

E-waste
is becoming the most human source of pollution. If these electronic wastes are
disposed or buried at will, a large number of harmful substances will seep into
the ground, causing serious pollution of groundwater; If burned, it would
release a lot of poisonous gases and seriously pollute the air. More worrying
is that as China has not established formal channels for e-waste recycling,
small business hawkers have become the main force of e-waste recycling in
China. The dismantling of electronic products is a highly professional and
technical job, and the vendors solve the problem with a hammer and a pool of
sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid eats away other ingredients and leaves precious
metals, while discarded acid and other harmful substances are discharged into
rivers and infiltrated underground, which is undoubtedly disastrous to the
environment. In short, just deal with diao; When, e-waste will pollute soil,
water, plants and animals, and eventually cause serious harm to human health
and life safety.

The
United States is the world's largest producer and consumer of electronics, as
well as the largest producer of electronic disasters and electronic pollution.
The United States currently produces between 7 billion and 8 billion tons of
e-waste each year, of which about 300 million used computers are eliminated
alone, according to the program. While China has banned the import of e-waste,
the Basel convention, an international treaty, provides for a total ban on the
export of all hazardous waste from developed to developing countries for any
reason. It is outrageous that America diao; It has refused only to sign the
Basel convention and continues to manufacture and export electronic waste in
flagrant violation of that convention. Under U.S. law, ships carrying hazardous
materials out of the country must register in advance, but leave e-waste out of
the way.

The
imported e-waste in China has spread from the factory east to hunan, zhejiang,
Shanghai, tianjin, fujian, lu and other areas. The problem of e-waste pollution
is most serious in guangdong and zhejiang. In guiyu town of shantou, guangdong
province, the e-waste industry started in 1995, enabling the town to employ
more than 100,000 migrant workers from anhui, hunan and other places and
process more than a million tons of e-waste each year from the United States,
Japan and South Korea. As the treatment method is very primitive, it can only
be treated by burning, crushing, dumping, direct discharge of waste liquid
extracted by concentrated acid, resulting in extraordinary ecological
consequences. More than 80 percent of local children are infected with
respiratory diseases. Migrant workers in other provinces pay a high price for
an average wage of more than 20 yuan per day. Another common disease is kidney
stones. Many of the migrant workers in the provinces are women and children.
Some say that guiyu's problems are just the tip of the iceberg in China.

The
disposal of e-waste is a worldwide problem. In the process of electronic
garbage disposal, the key is to according to the polluter pays principle,
determine reasonable fee system, clear manufacturers, retailers, consumers
every aspect of the obligation, to establish a special accord with technical
standards of disposal mechanism, establish a social recycling service system,
so as to realize the reduction and recycling of electronic waste and harmless.

China
has not established a recycling management system for e-waste. Except for a
small number of e-waste being recycled and treated by manufacturers, a large
number of e-waste is either buried as ordinary waste or disassembled and
recycled in small workshops without proper conditions. As a result, large
quantities of harmful substances are discharged directly into rivers, into the
ground, or through combustion into the air, forming serious pollution.

At
present, China is stepping up legislation on the recycling and reuse of e-waste
and plans to clarify manufacturers' obligations on the recycling and
reprocessing of waste products. Experts believe that to fundamentally solve the
e-waste problem, first of all, manufacturers must face up to the environmental
responsibility. If enterprises have economic responsibility for the recycling
and disposal of products, it will prompt them to use harmless and easily
recycled raw materials to prevent pollution at the root. On the other hand, the
relevant departments must be responsible for supervision. China has banned the
import of e-waste, so why are so many "litter boy" able to reproduce?
Was customs due diligence? Has the crackdown been thorough? Is the
environmental monitoring department responsible? They are covered by something,
so that the illegal operation of the "cha ye" can survive on garbage
so "moist", our beautiful home into the dump "foreign garbage".

Needless
to say, the problem of e-waste pollution is imminent. For the health of the
people, it is urgent to deal with e-waste. It is urgent for all parties to work
together to protect the living environment of our future generations.